Re: SMS CDS migration

2020-12-23 Thread Hervey Martinez
The only way to transfer the CDS info is to allocate a new set and go through the process to transfer/switch over to new CDS files. We finished zos 2.4 about 3 months ago and the only concern was to make a backup of the CDS in case of a backout due toTsome changes that affected the size of some

Re: Strange Migration behaviour DFHSM

2019-12-30 Thread Hervey Martinez
Jake, The more common issues with this kind of behavior is that probably migration is held or there are no tape tasks assigned. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2019 10:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subjec

Re: Tn3270 + MFA

2019-07-16 Thread Hervey Martinez
I work for a Bank and MFA was implemented several months ago. It was very smooth for the most part. One of the issues we ran into was our DR exercise, the MFA software did not work on the DR recovered system since we usually do some SMS work in the first IPL; we had to keep our "old" password a

Re: Expanding DFHSM MCDS

2019-07-09 Thread Hervey Martinez
Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:05 AM, Hervey Martinez wrote: > We need to expand the MCDS and are leaning towards using a mod-27 volume to > resize and keeping a sing

Re: Expanding DFHSM MCDS

2019-07-09 Thread Hervey Martinez
then split into multiple clusters. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Expanding DFHSM MCDS We need to expand the MCDS and are

Expanding DFHSM MCDS

2019-07-09 Thread Hervey Martinez
We need to expand the MCDS and are leaning towards using a mod-27 volume to resize and keeping a single cluster. I've done some reading and have not seen anything about whether this can be done. Anybody out there done this? Hervey

Re: Gotchas for RMM and HSM under z/OS 2.3

2019-03-17 Thread Hervey Martinez
Hi Jake, One of the segment in hsm is expanding but not sure if this will be a problem for you since the issue affects the sharing LPAR. So, if you have more than one LPAR and one of these is upgraded; then, a toleration PTF has to be applied to the LPAR that does not upgrade; otherwise, a soc4

Re: hsm questions

2019-03-14 Thread Hervey Martinez
Mike, Yes, you should be able to delete the logs outside of hsm. I don't think it keeps track of those. The log retention is usually governed ty the management class; so, look into that. To check the space on hsm cds files: HSEND Q CDS That command will give the the space allocation of the ocd

Re: HSM Migrate Storagegroup Command APAR OA56695

2019-01-23 Thread Hervey Martinez
Hi Chuck, So, what you're saying is that the command ignored management class attributes for each of these files? Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: H

Re: Multi-volume HSM MCDS

2018-12-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
ed to be RLS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Multi-volume HSM MCDS The MCDS is taking up a full mod-9 and it is growing.

Re: Multi-volume HSM MCDS

2018-12-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.arci000/mvcds.htm You probably have to change your startup JCL for DFHSM Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Hervey Martinez > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU &

Multi-volume HSM MCDS

2018-12-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
The MCDS is taking up a full mod-9 and it is growing. I'm looking at expanding the file to be multi-volume and wondering if this can be done without converting CDS to RLS? Done some searches but don't really come up with anything. How would this be expanded to multi-volume. Would the definitio

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZFS RECORG=FS Well, the DFSMS manual states that RECORG=FS is valid. Once again, this issue is in creating a test c

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
Discussion List On Behalf Of > Hervey Martinez > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:11 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ZFS RECORG=FS > > We don't have a problem defining or converting files. > > The issue is in ISMF. It will not recognize the FS for

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
you want to use it for your process. Please post the documentation that requires the use of RECORG for this process. This does not make sense to me. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Hervey Martinez > Sent: Wednesday, Decembe

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:15 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ZFS RECORG=FS > > A zFS is a specially formatted VSAM LDS. How are you creating the ZFS? > > Hervey Martinez wrote on 12/11/18 3:59 PM: > > Working on HFS to ZFS conversion and the DFSMS manual f

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
g the utility I had posted previously - no need to define the ZFS beforehand the utility will do this for you Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Hervey Martinez" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:35:28 AM Subject: Re: ZFS RECORG=F

Re: ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
LDS. How are you creating the ZFS? Hervey Martinez wrote on 12/11/18 3:59 PM: Working on HFS to ZFS conversion and the DFSMS manual for zos 2.3 mentions the RECORG=FS to be used for ZFS files. In creating a test case in ISMF, it does not recognize this parm and it give an error. i did add this to

ZFS RECORG=FS

2018-12-11 Thread Hervey Martinez
Working on HFS to ZFS conversion and the DFSMS manual for zos 2.3 mentions the RECORG=FS to be used for ZFS files. In creating a test case in ISMF, it does not recognize this parm and it give an error. i did add this to the ACS routines and we are able to allocate a ZFS and convert an HFS to ZF

Re: Question about Luminex VTS solutions

2018-09-07 Thread Hervey Martinez
We had a Luminex library for our small mainframe shop. i was not impressed with the support. I'm not sure if that was due to the contract we had or the company in general. Hervey From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Todd Burrell Sent: Friday, Se

Re: IEC614I Scratch

2018-07-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
esday, July 11, 2018 8:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEC614I Scratch One of the parmlb datasets. If you have command access, issue a D PARMLIB command for the list of datasets in use. You can also issue a D MPF command which should show the active list too. Hervey Martinez wrote

Re: IEC614I Scratch

2018-07-11 Thread Hervey Martinez
being suppressed either using MPFLSTxx or AutoOps? Either one can prevent the message from being written to the log. Hervey Martinez wrote on 7/9/18 2:39 PM: We have instances where some GDG files don't get deleted while these are in ML1; thus, they end up generating errors during Seco

IEC614I Scratch

2018-07-09 Thread Hervey Martinez
We have instances where some GDG files don't get deleted while these are in ML1; thus, they end up generating errors during Secondary Space Management generating a RC=20 RSN=98. I opened a ticket with IBM and they tell me that there should be an IEC614I Scratch message being generated and this

Re: CICS - Online vsam file space issues

2018-04-06 Thread Hervey Martinez
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Hervey Martinez wrote: > We had an issue where an online was had problems due to space. > > The VSAM file had 50 extents across 12 volumes and had several candidate > volumes available with plenty of space. The error IEC070I 209-220. > > A file

CICS - Online vsam file space issues

2018-04-06 Thread Hervey Martinez
We had an issue where an online was had problems due to space. The VSAM file had 50 extents across 12 volumes and had several candidate volumes available with plenty of space. The error IEC070I 209-220. A file was migrated off of one volume that the VSAM file was currently using. Several years

Re: ARC0734i rc=20 reason=98

2017-11-20 Thread Hervey Martinez
A.EDU Subject: Re: ARC0734i rc=20 reason=98 GDS=EXPIRED vs GDS=MIGRATE in the SMS management class? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subjec

Re: ARC0734i rc=20 reason=98

2017-11-20 Thread Hervey Martinez
n Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Hervey Martinez wrote: > Well, all files that I've seen are GDG files. This is very puzzling. There > are a few of these errors that happen every so often but have no idea what > is causing them. > Oh, I've had that problem. Look at the GD

Re: ARC0734i rc=20 reason=98

2017-11-20 Thread Hervey Martinez
l" dataset). This will resolve the issue. As to why, there are too many variables to spend a great deal of time speculating. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017

ARC0734i rc=20 reason=98

2017-11-20 Thread Hervey Martinez
We have several datasets that show up in HSM's miglog file. I know the problem is that the file is not cataloged and is the reason for the error. My question is: What causes these files to become uncataloged? I've read a few other posts about the HSM address space being cancelled due to errors

Re: Question about management class autobackup=y

2017-10-11 Thread Hervey Martinez
may have changed. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Question about management class autobackup=y We have several files tha

Question about management class autobackup=y

2017-10-10 Thread Hervey Martinez
We have several files that are receiving RC=53 and the management class has autobackup=y. The help panel in ISMF, describes this field as, "Automatic backup is allowed" but since these files are erroring that means that "backup are required". We don't run HSM backups since we rely on FDR for th

Re: HSM ML2 on disk

2014-11-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
on virtual tape. I have 300GB tape files defined. But if a file is only 100KB then that is all that is used. I no longer waste a whole 300GB tape. Hope this helps. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > O

Re: HSM ML2 on disk

2014-11-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Hervey Martinez > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: HSM ML2 on disk > > Just wondering if any of you out there have converted your Mainframe

Re: HSM ML2 on disk

2014-11-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
* On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Hervey Martinez < hervey.marti...@custserv.com> wrote: > Just wondering if any of you out there have converted your Mainframe's > HSM > ML2 from tape to disk? If so, what are the pitfalls? A quick search of > Google did not yield much; s

HSM ML2 on disk

2014-11-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
Just wondering if any of you out there have converted your Mainframe's HSM ML2 from tape to disk? If so, what are the pitfalls? A quick search of Google did not yield much; so, just wondering if anybody has done this. Regards, Hervey Storage Administrator -

Re: Locate unit address of a NON SMS volume using ISMF

2014-03-14 Thread Hervey Martinez
Using the operator command: /d u,,,,## Where is the starting UCB address and ## will be the number of consecutive addresses to display. For example: the command /d u,,,1000,16 will display all addresses starting with unit 1000 thru unit 100f and this info will be in the log. T

Re: Catalog Rebuild JCL

2013-10-08 Thread Hervey Martinez
Jake, The alias' are in the master catalog not in the user catalog. If you have multiple master catalogs, then the user cat needs to be detached from the other masters before you do the resize and after the re-org; then, it has to be re-connected back to those same masters. Regards, Hervey

CA-allocate

2013-10-07 Thread Hervey Martinez
Anybody out there use or have converted to CA-Allocate? If so, can you share your opinion on the product? I've been looking for reviews of the product and just don't seem to find anything. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: DFHSM expire processing

2013-08-23 Thread Hervey Martinez
We run EXPIREBV only on weekends and we let it run all day long along with all HSM functions and have never had an issue. We've been running this way for several years. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Deleting Alias

2013-08-21 Thread Hervey Martinez
In ISPF 3.4, put in the '/' on the line for "include additional qualifiers" Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of mf db Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Del

Re: Catalog resizing approach

2013-08-13 Thread Hervey Martinez
The repro/mergecat functions are very slow because all VTOCS/VVDS will need to be updated with the new catalog name. What you want is to reorg the catalog. In short, backup the catalog, delete the old structure, re-define it; then, restore from backup into its new structure. If you have a utili

Re: Choosing a tape library

2013-06-10 Thread Hervey Martinez
Gadi, We are about to start testing a Luminex VTS and, from everything that we've read, it appears to be an excellent solution. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013

Luminex tapeless solution

2013-05-21 Thread Hervey Martinez
Hello, We'll be testing a Luminex tapeless solution in our mainframe environment in the next couple of months and just wondering if any of you out there have gone through this type of implementation. If so, any problems encountered migrating the HSM or TSM tape date to this new hardware? Anythi

Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Hervey Martinez
The 3490 unit assignment could be a default being set somewhere in z/OS; if this is the case, then you're falling through somewhere(possibly in ACS routines) and by default z/OS assigns the default unit type. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mail

Re: New DASD under z/VM

2013-04-22 Thread Hervey Martinez
All of our z/VM volumes are formatted with ICKDSF using CPVOLUME command. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: New DASD unde

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RECALLING DSN TO ITS ORIGINAL VOLUME

2013-03-22 Thread Hervey Martinez
>From the message, it appears that the volume SMTP17 is an SMS volume but the >command has FORCENONSMS. A file can be recalled to a non-sms volume..have done >it several times. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On B

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - AUDIT HELD

2013-02-18 Thread Hervey Martinez
Well, it depends on whether you're running audits or not. If you're running an audit on a regular basis, then it makes sense to "hold it" since an audit will keep your CDSs from getting backed up. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@

Re: BYPASSING RECALL OF MIGRATED DSNS WHILE ATTEMPTING ALTER

2013-02-01 Thread Hervey Martinez
Assuming that all these gdg files belong to the "same gdg base"; it's possible that the GDG base was defined with a "noscratch"; then, when a gdg is "rolled off" then the file would not get deleted just detached from the base but stays on the catalog. Rolling all of these "in" is an exercise in

Re: ESDS extent ...

2013-01-07 Thread Hervey Martinez
The file has to be reorged in order for it to pick the new dataclass attributes. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Moussadak Mostafa Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Automation for IGD17272I

2013-01-07 Thread Hervey Martinez
Antonio, Do the volumes added then reclaimed or do they just stay in the SG? If this is an occasional problem and you reclaim these newly added volumes; then, HSM's Interval Migration might be a good tool for this type of problems. If this is something that happens once or twice a week, then th

Re: switching to new shared sms commds

2012-11-13 Thread Hervey Martinez
When we expanded the COMMDS, we did not have any issues with any LPARS while we were switching over to the new one. Thus, I doubt that it will be a problem. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Leong, D

Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

2012-10-12 Thread Hervey Martinez
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape At 11:55 + on 10/11/2012, Hervey Martinez wrote about Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape: >If

Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

2012-10-11 Thread Hervey Martinez
: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape Hervey, That is not true, at least not at this shop. HSM routinely queues recalls according to tape volume in order to minimize tape mounts with or without CRQ. Dave O'Brien -Original Message----- From: Hervey Martinez [mail

Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

2012-10-11 Thread Hervey Martinez
If you have CRQ(Common Recall Queue) set up, then HSM will "look ahead" and recall all files that are on the same tape. Also, with CRQ, you can limit which LPARS will perform recalls and limit them in that manner and all recalls will be routed to that LPAR. Otherwise, the recalls happen one at a

Re: DFSMSHSM Management Class Question

2012-10-09 Thread Hervey Martinez
We had a similar situation in our shop and we found out that HSMs Secondary Space Management was not running to completion by looking; so, look for this message "ARC0518I SECONDARY SPACE MANAGEMENT ENDED SUCCESSFULLY". Also, Make sure that the files have backups if these are called for by the ma

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-21 Thread Hervey Martinez
Normally, the expired datasets are cleaned up during HSM's Primary & Secondary Space management. What time do these run in your shop? Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla Sent: Friday,

Re: Dcollect question

2012-09-05 Thread Hervey Martinez
The management class has the expiration information. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: QUESTION ON HSM ; BYPASSING DSNS ON A ML2 TAPE

2012-08-28 Thread Hervey Martinez
Willie, The problem is not the migrated file, it just happens to be that the tape has a bad spot and it happens to be the spot where this file is physically on the tape; thus, you can't get past it. You should mark the tape full to keep it from being written to again; Then, you can: 1) just si

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2012-07-31 Thread Hervey Martinez
To get a somewhat close guesstimate, you can drop the least significant digits to go from KB to MB, then to GB. Thus, if you have something like 123456789 KB; then, to guesstimate the number of MB you drop the last 3 digits; thus, you have 123456 MB; then to take this to GB you drop the next 3

Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components

2012-06-29 Thread Hervey Martinez
In ISPF 3.4 when you enter the VSAM name, then, the VSAM filenames are displayed, you should be able to do a "del / nos" and you may need to do this to the data & index components; but you need Storage admin privileges to do this; if you dont, contact your storage person. You will not be able t